Haggai 2:15

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“Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,”

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BSBPD

“Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And now, lay <FI>it<Fi> , I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Haggai 2:15 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ezra 3:10When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.
  2. Ezra 4:24Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
  3. Psalms 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
  4. Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
  5. Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
  6. Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  7. Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  8. Haggai 2:18Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
  9. Zechariah 8:11But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  10. Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
  11. Romans 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
  12. 1 Corinthians 11:31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

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